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Indefensive Emblem

from Book In Hand by Kurt Rongey

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This is about the desperation of two people beaten down by an emotional war. Its musical origins are complicated to explain. The drum track comes from the same recording session as "Long, Dark Corridor" and was originally for a Morning Thunder/Crunchy Frog tune called "Dreams." The chord progression when it breaks into 4/4 after the introductory 6/8 is something that Bill Pohl wrote for Morning Thunder's "Lost Horizons." Thunder ditched that tune and I begged Bill to let me use that progression for something someday. The repeating piano melody in the quiet middle section was originally played all-harmonics by Bill in the original "Dreams." The basic framework for the drums can be credited to Dave Gryder, although my playing doesn't in any way resemble that of Dave, who is the fastest drummer in the universe. All the keys were recorded at RCM.

lyrics

Indefensive emblem, I
want
nothing
more.

Keeping
every promise, Taking time

You can't
go away
now
Head in hand and book on the floor.

Silent
as the lines
touched my hand
One
dead
animal
floating in the river
was what
I
saw.
It took me a couple days
To remember
what Now
I I'm
came here for sure.

It's only a matter of time.

Terror is not the thing
that drives
me
to you

Love
is the
only thing
I ever knew

That walk on the beach
was all I needed
To see things clearly again.

It's only a matter of time.

Indefensive emblem
I want nothing more
Knowing this cannot be
Wasted time.

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from Book In Hand, released November 1, 1991

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